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In the poem “Painted Tongue,” Byas writes: “We twist and turn in the mirror,/ my mother and I becoming each other,/ her bruises and scars passed down,/ family heirlooms that will take/ me ...
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (first published in 1988, with three subsequent editions, the last being a 20th anniversary edition in 2008) is a self-help book by poet Ellen Bass and Laura Davis that focuses on recovery from child sexual abuse and has been called "controversial and polarizing".
Ellen Bass (born June 16, 1947) is an American poet and author. She has won three Pushcart Prizes and a Lambda Literary Award for her 2002 book Mules of Love.She co-authored the 1991 child sexual abuse book The Courage to Heal.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (born April 21, 1975) is a Canadian-American poet, writer, educator, and social activist. Their writing and performance art focuses on documenting the stories of queer and trans people of color, abuse survivors, mixed-race people and diasporic South Asians and Sri Lankans.
Royer is the founder and editor-in-chief of Persephone's Daughters, a digital literary and arts journal dedicated for survivors of abuse. [12] Royer writes about sexual assault, violence, mental illnesses, pain and death, and abortion. Healing and recovery are also common themes. [1] [13] [14]
Preventing and healing from abuse is about more than the estimated 600,000 children who are abused or neglected each year in America. It’s about even more than the homes they live in, their ...
The center’s supervisor, Carla Stowe, has influenced the healing of Santiago and her children. “When women like Jeniffer come to us, we provide a safe space, faith-based classes and a room for ...
The book is divided into 7 sections reflecting the life cycle of a flower, with chapters titled: Wilting, Falling, Rooting, Rising, and Blooming. It focuses on themes of love and loss, trauma and abuse, healing, femininity and the body. Wilting touches on the subject of heartbreak and loss.